: Re: [CGUYS] Buying a Mac PowerBook Pro
Thanks for your reply. The info you asked about is below.
Snyder, Mark (NGIT-CA) wrote:
If this is not a new laptop, you will need to tell us the model before
I
can tell you its limits.
Apple 15.4 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Notebook
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I would plan to add 10.5, especially if you get an external drive(s) and
would like automatic backup with TimeMachine, which comes with 10.5.
But don't do it this month or next!
* == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the
By next month 10.5.1 should be out. It is being developer-tested now.
I have 10.5 and am waiting, but expect to upgrade to 10.5 (then 10.5.1)
by sometime next month. I am also tracking 10.5 issues on MacFixit
while I wait.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
I would plan to add
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Subject: [CGUYS] Buying a Mac PowerBook Pro
Gosh, so many replies about serial ports and floppy drives on laptops.
I'm thinking of buying a Mac PowerBook Pro (college daughter bought one
and loves it), but I am
: [CGUYS] Buying a Mac PowerBook Pro
Gosh, so many replies about serial ports and floppy drives on laptops.
I'm thinking of buying a Mac PowerBook Pro (college daughter bought one
and loves it), but I am a Windows person and don't know how to select
and I've never had a laptop. The one that I am
The Mac at the web site you linked to appears to have 2G RAM. Plenty
unless you it will be doing some kind of heavy graphics lifting.
If I were you I would lean towards Parallels rather than have to reboot
to switch. That is of course unless you are thinking of not using OS X
at all.
I would
1. What is the best software that emulates Windows on a Mac? Or, is it
better to install Windows as a partition? I need this because of the
very many Windows applications that I have.
Use this as an opportunity to get better software. Running Windows on a
Mac is not a good thing to do. you
Gosh, so many replies about serial ports and floppy drives on laptops.
I'm thinking of buying a Mac PowerBook Pro (college daughter bought one
and loves it), but I am a Windows person and don't know how to select
and I've never had a laptop. The one that I am considering is a 15.4
screen,
